Have you tested a parent’s DNA? If so, have you compared their ethnicity numbers to your ethnicities by parent information? I have to admit that I had not paid attention until I was looking for my Irish ancestry.
Since I’ve tested my mother, I have her ethnicity results.
When I looked at my ‘Ethnicity by parents’ page, I discovered my Irish ancestry on the paternal side of my tree and none on my maternal side of the tree.
When I checked how sideview split my matches, I found that the suggested surnames for my maternal and paternal lines agreed with my research.
Hoping that the labels on the ethnicity page for maternal and paternal were separate from the match split, I tried editing the labels to switch the 1% Irish to my mother. However, that also switched the labels on my matches.
So Sideview technology is telling me to look for my Irish on my dad’s side of the tree while my mother’s DNA results are sying that I should look for Irish ancestry on her side of the tree. Since I have tested my brothers, I looked at their results and found that one of them has the Irish 1% assigned to the maternal side of the tree.
These ethnicity percentages for my brother and myself show that we each inherited DNA differently from our parents.
At first, I questioned why the maternal ethnicity percentages in sideview were different from the actual results for my mother. That was until I started reading the entire screen and found the disclaimer that the actual test results from a parent are NOT used when figuring out the Sideview ethnicity percents.
